Bases Quote by Marquis de Sade

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .

— Marquis de Sade

Ignorance of God and of ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our disquietments; and, this ariseth mostly not from want of…

— John Owen

Religion is a byproduct of fear,

— Arthur C. Clarke

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

— Herman Melville

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and…

— Anonymous

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

— Herman Melville

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

— David Furnish

Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our…

— Parker J. Palmer

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

— Abraham Maslow

“All appropriate behavior and outlook for human beings made in the image of God find their reference point and measure in God himself. The…

— D.A. Carson

The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience.

— Max Anders